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[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

TIL they wash ball pit balls

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

Well you're supposed to, does every place with a ball pit wash them? Ehhhhh...

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I think dashcon could have just used a large sink.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

I doubt many places do.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Only a true connoisseur can handle the vomit and piss of a never-washed ball pit.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] markz@suppo.fi 2 points 1 week ago

"When you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That is impressive, but it seems a bit excessive as I only have two.

[–] wattanao@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not the only one that needs a wash around here

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Line em up boys!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but you can wash them 20k times in an hour!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Any more than three times counts as masturbation.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Serious question: does this machine have a mechanism for ensuring that multiple user's balls don't touch?

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The UV light is probably useless if it shines a few seconds only on those balls. The disinfectant wash by its own is probably enough.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago

The UV feature is probably an upgrade, lying about which is no-doubt how the sales guy makes his quarterly bonus.

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just don't trust UV sanitizers, there's just no way you can make me believe that a pile of shit is sanitary just because you shined a light on it

idk I'm sure it does something but I just don't trust it

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Well, if you want it meme speak, it's spicy light. But it needs to shine a long time before it reliably does anything. Hours, not seconds.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

Just like your mom

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your mom is a ball washing machine

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you kind sir, I came here to say this.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are there 19,999 other guys who wanna get their balls washed with me?

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Everyone needs to go tip to tip so the ball washing machine can reach its optimal potential. It’s a middle-out algorithm.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Sir, I'm not sure how exactly you managed to have this happen, but the pathology lab says that those are ultraviolet-C light burns on your scrotum."

This makes me wonder how many people out of 20,000 would potentially only have 1 ball. Or none

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

I had no reference for what that was, I picked one random ball pit calculator and it said that for a 1m³ pit I need around 2800 balls. So 40k balls is around 14m³? Not bad.

It would take a week to clean an olympic pool size ball pit.

[–] MummifiedClient5000 11 points 1 week ago
[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

The balls will be fastly sucked into the machine

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago
[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Beavis, your balls are filthy.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just a FYI: You linked to the last two seconds of the video.

for me it's just a link to the same post, and of course I clicked 10 times before realising that

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I think I fixed it. Thanks.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, what to do after the machine has your balls?